Note that very few of our sales are traditional games (chess, checkers, playing cards, etc.) You should really visit our website before designing a logo, spend a few minutes looking at the top selling products, to get a better feel for our audience and our merchandise mix.

Exigences

We think, however, you might want to avoid trying to put an actual troll and toad in the logo, or at least, try to avoid both. I'm looking for more simple designs than the ones shown on my page.

Some ideas: perhaps using some of the hobby game pieces as part of the design in some way. Some of the symbols associated with our companies' products include card (ccg card, not playing card), playing pieces (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German-style_board... ), miniature (http://www.trollandtoad.com/Collectible-Miniatu... ), hexagon ( http://grognard.com/ ), dice (http://www.trollandtoad.com/Gaming-Supplies-&-D... ) etc.

Some of the logos we like are those of Playboy, Apple, Nike, Shell, Starbucks, Superman. These are all very simple logos, often only 1-2 colors, and yet each invokes the brand very well.